The Nature of Feeling

As humans, we experience many types of feelings, which include the body’s physical senses, its emotions, and its states of consciousness.   The quality of “feeling” directly manifests to the mind as a mental quality.  In fact, every mental experience has a feeling quality.  In many cases, measurements validate these feeling qualities (for example, temperature, pressure, chemical processes arising as hormone feelings, and audio and video stimulation).

There are two distinct components to feelings.  There is the material component arising from some kind of matter, and then there is the non-material component as felt by the mind.  The five dominant senses of humans convey touch, taste, smell, sound and sight to the mind.  Emotions often relate to chemical (hormone) activity within the body.  Other feelings, such as a sense of foreboding, have even subtler physical causes within the environment (“something in the air”), yet the mind still feels them.

Feelings are at once both object and subject.  They are both a thing and an action.  At the level of feelings, there is no duality.  To be fully aware of one’s feelings, one must transcend the dualistic thinking process.  As humans, we must also arrange our dualistic thinking process in a way that allows us time during the day to feel our feelings.

Neuroscientists measure human feeling primarily via the unit of conductance.  Although knowledge of the connection between conductance and feeling has existed for several decades, few people seemed to have realized the importance of this observation.  Conductance is not only the measure of feeling; it is the substance of feeling.[1] All matter possesses the property of conductance and thus has the property of feeling.

Our feelings of pain, happiness, clarity of mind, depression, warmth, and the sensations of touch all occur via conductance.  There is no feeling that is not conductance.  Conductance is the boundary between mind and matter.  Self-consciousness is itself a snapshot of an entity’s present state of conductance.

As humans, we generally assume only humans have the capacity to experience feelings.  This is true only insofar as non-human matter cannot process feelings in the same manner that we do.

Each form of matter has a unique geometry.  The unique geometry produces unique patterns for possessing and processing feeling.

Some material forms do not have the sophisticated physical and biophoton networks of organs, cells, and molecules, which humans have.  For example, minerals manifest as conglomerations of molecules with no cellular or organ structures.  The molecular structure of minerals is very simple and relatively unsophisticated.  The feeling qualities associated with minerals would therefore be very simple.  A given structure of molecule will behave consistently for a given chemical reaction.  Metaphysicians discovered minerals to have very specific feeling properties, while chemists observe minerals to have very specific physical behaviors.  Feeling is the non-material “mental” aspect associated with physical structure and behavior, and applies at all levels of existence.

To recap, the feeling-behavior characteristic applying to molecules is simple compared to the complex feeling-behavior characteristics applying to more complex structures.

Cells are sophisticated conglomerations of different types of molecules.  Almost all cells on Earth compose from protein and fat molecules but differ in structure and purpose due to additional molecules.  Even proteins and fats manifest various forms.

Being composed of molecules, cells are more complex than molecules.  Therefore, their feeling-behavior patterns are also more complex.  This greater complexity of feeling-behavior leads to greater complexity of function, as well.

Whereas the functions of molecules are very simple and specific, the functions of cells are more complex and diverse than molecules.  A bone cell might produce a tibia, fibula, skull, or exoskeleton.

Organs have feelings and behaviors, too.  Being composed of cells, organs have greater complexity and diversity than cells alone.  Finally, a human composes from organs, and thus has a greater feeling-behavior complexity.

Biology is the branch of physics devoted to the study of cellular and complex cellular structures.  In addition to being a physicist, a metaphysicist must also be a biologist.  Understanding how feeling manifests as behavior at different levels of reality is the key to mastering metaphysics.  The goal of the metaphysicist is to understand and utilize feeling at all levels of reality from complex feeling-behavior structures to the simplest structures.